Seventeen dead high school students and teachers in Parkland, a small community just north of Miami that has been called one of the safest in the country. And the cause? A teenage “professional school shooter’ allowed to purchase guns.

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The November midterm elections will serve, for one, to gauge Trump’s possibilities for reelection in 2020. It will also determine if the Congress remains a Republican stronghold for the next two years. And Florida, especially two key south Florida congressional races, is considered a potential ground zero in 2018.

For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when Obama was president and deliberately perpetrate them when their man is in the White House. But Rand Paul misleads big time when he equates the Obama deficit and a future deficit by design.

If you are the U.S. State Department in the age of Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to ramp up the scare meter on Cuba travelers, you continue to hype the secretive ‘sonic attacks’ they tell us have affected, now 43, American citizens who lived in or visited Havana. And then you employ the services of a Miami newspaper.

The president who has done more than any other to polarize this already divided nation delivered his first State of the Union speech last week. The partisan chasm, one of many rifts in this country further widened by Trump and one-party Republican rule in Congress, pervaded the room.

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NRA insists on buying morally decrepit politicians. Those same pols then enable the NRA to sell weapons of mass destruction that kill hundreds of our children. Then there’s the almighty second amendment, which has become more important that our children.

Seventeen dead high school students and teachers in Parkland, a small community just north of Miami that has been called one of the safest in the country. And the cause? A teenage “professional school shooter’ allowed to purchase guns.

A number of young, ambitious and qualified candidates all want to represent the Democratic Party in this November’s election that will determine who succeeds retiring republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. One of these Democrats should win unless another Clintonite shows up and spoils the proverbial soup.

The November midterm elections will serve, for one, to gauge Trump’s possibilities for reelection in 2020. It will also determine if the Congress remains a Republican stronghold for the next two years. And Florida, especially two key south Florida congressional races, is considered a potential ground zero in 2018.

Cuba rejected recent statements made by Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of America States, on the island’s political system, stating that Almagro had no “credibility” to speak about Cuba. Almagro’s remarks were made in Miami where he was meeting with Cuban dissident groups.

The twin sisters in Ibeyi come by their connection to the Afro-Cuban culture by way of their late father, Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an in-demand Cuban percussionist who was part of a vanguard musicians who reinvigorated Cuban music before he died prematurely at age 45 in 2006.

For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when Obama was president and deliberately perpetrate them when their man is in the White House. But Rand Paul misleads big time when he equates the Obama deficit and a future deficit by design.

An American diplomat who was expelled from Bolivia for reportedly meddling in the host country’s domestic politics will leave Washington for Havana and become the United States’ new chargé d’affairs “within days,” the Russian news agency TASS reported Wednesday.